Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-13
A TORY MULHATTONI.SM.

4 TORY MULHA TTONISM
Not long ago Chicago drummer cir
culated a wild, wierd romance about g
friend of his having to kill seven men,
bers of a family named Murphy in Tex
arkana. This lurid yarn crossed the At
lantic and was seized Immediately by the
| London Telegraph and hurled as q bomb
into the Parnellite camp. There is q
SAVIOR of American campaignism in the
comments of the Telegraph which makes
one feel altogether ct home while reading
them. Here is g sample:
Texas, by far the largest state of the Ameri-
can Union, covers nearly 100000 square miles
that is to say, greater area than France and
Spain combined-and contains nearly 100000
600 of acres, Within the spacious confines of
the "Lone Star state" there are said to reside
at this moment no less than $4,000 ruflians.
chiefly Irishmen, who are wanted" in other
states, but whom 1t is too perilOus job to ar
rest and bring back at great cost IN order to
subject them to a Trial, in which they might
perhaps be acquitted. Under these circum-
stances, the pistol, the bowie knife and the
Winchester repeating rifle are weapons without
one or more of which no prudent father of q
family, living in lonely neighborhood. cares
to go about his daily business. 1t is not agree
BILE 10 live under the rule of the revolver, es-
pecially for honest men of quiet disposition
who hate brawling and eschew bar-rooms.
Texas should not complain about lit
tie friendly lying done on the right side
and where It will do the most good
This, while we know that Texas does not
contain 100000 square miles, nor 200,-
100000 acres, we can excuse the mis-
taken zeal of our transatlantic friend as
long as he gives US the benefit
of the exaggeration. 1t is what we
would call q campaign lie II this
country, and campaign lies are closely
allied to virtues when judged by the liar
and his party friends. When, however,
we are reported to have 10000 ruffians,
chiefly Irish," we must demur. This is
the sort of notoriety we do not desire.
We will take acres and miles of territory,
including Greer county, if we can get it;
we will take corner of our neighbors'
territory at any time; we will 60 so far
as TO claim Galveston island, Eleventh
ward and all, but not 10000 ruffians of
one nationality, all imported. OF course
Texas Is bigger than France and Spain;
bigger than all Europe, Asia and the
greater part of America; she has nun
dreds of thousands of Winchesters, mil
lions of pistols, canaons that are full
first cousins to those of Napoleon at
AusterlItz in pedigree, and better than
krupp's best in style; whole coun-
ties piled up mountain high with
powder and bullets, dynamite and gun
cotton, and enough cavalry horses to
make q line three abreast clear around
the world; but these warlike stores are
not in the hands of 100000 rufisns,
chiefly Irish" We have number of bad
men in Texas it is true, but they are all
editing newspapers and fight SO much
among themselves that they have not
time to poster other people. There are
several Irish desperadoes and highway
men in Texas, too, but they, too, are on
the tripod, and do nothing worse than
steal editorial paragraphs from THE GA
ZKTTE, which sin, however heinous, is
atoned for by their excellent judgment
IN knowing good thing when they see
it, and gives them immunity from prose-
cution. Indeed we have the famous mo.
/" of the Fenian brotherhood among US,
but he is at present editing the
Houston Age, and lsboring for the prohi-
bition cause with might and main; all
this is mere nothing as compared with
the charge made by the Telegraph. A
Tory editor learns nothing and forgets
nothing. He goes into en- election on the
rough and tumble plan, determined to
both "gouge and chaw" until the end is
reached. He is unlike his American con-
frere in that he is guided altogether by
his prejudices, and ne believes firmly snd
devoutly in those prejudices. He is not
double-action, like the American He
could not write Tory leader to-day
and Liberal or Radical tomorrow.
The American Mulhattonism is
read by him seriously, and swsl-
lowed every word, II it suits him.
And it suggests to him Mulhsttonism